2024 Elections

Russia made an audacious public attempt to blackmail the incoming U.S. president, according to a military expert.

Vladimir Putin and his ministers are already trying to mess with Donald Trump's head when Kremlin intelligence chief Nikolai Patrushev claimed in an interview that Trump had "relied on certain forces" to win a second term in the White House and warned that he had "corresponding obligations" that he was "obliged to fulfill," wrote Slate columnist Fred Kaplan.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised questions about Donald Trump's surprising choice for secretary of defense.

The president-elect caught many inside and outside his orbit off guard by tapping the Fox News host, who served in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay with the National Guard, and the "Morning Joe" host questioned the conservative broadcaster's qualifications for the job as civilian leader of the U.S. military.

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The battle over who will lead the Democrats through the incoming Trump administration as the party’s next chair is being described as a "pivotal moment” that will come with “significant consequences," according to a new report.

It will also offer some of the "first clues about how the Democratic Party intends to emerge from the wilderness and regain power in the midterms,” Politico reported Tuesday night, which added that the sometimes little-watched contest “has become an urgent battle for the direction of the party in the aftermath of last week’s election.”

One of Democrats' bright spots in the 2024 election was the re-election of Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who defeated Trump-backed businessman Eric Hovde even as Trump narrowly carried the state. But Hovde is in no mood to acknowledge his loss, complaining that it wasn't legitimate because a far-right third-party candidate denied him votes to win.

“We’re certainly disappointed that the Democrats’ effort to siphon votes with a fraudulent candidate had a significant impact on the race, with those votes making up more than the entire margin of the race right now,” said Hovde last week in a news release, referring to Thomas Leager, an extreme pro-gun candidate who had ties to the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and received some funding to run from Democratic donors. “We will continue to monitor returns and make sure that every vote is counted.”

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy flummoxed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by suggesting that President Joe Biden's Tuesday meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris would be an "awkward" situation.

Doocy made the remark during Tuesday's White House briefing.

Most people ignore the relentless string of text messages from political candidates and PACs throughout the election cycle, or perhaps give on one or two occasions and forget about it. But some people, often elderly, become pressured into giving thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars that they can't afford, reported the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.

"By around noon on a recent day, Sandra, 88, said she’d already received 125 text messages asking for donations to a campaign. More often than not, she ends up sending some money to the cause," reported Gabrielle LeMarr LeMee.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said "a lot of election fraud" was to blame after Republicans failed to secure a sizable majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

During a Tuesday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Greene noted that control of the House had not been determined at that time.

Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump could become a U.S. senator if Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) takes the advice of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL).

After Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was named President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Secretary of State nominee, Luna told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that the RNC co-chair should replace him in the Senate.

News that President-elect Donald Trump could select Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state has triggered an almost immediate "MAGA backlash," according to a new report.

"MAGA-minded" warriors — among them allies of Trump’s former director of national intelligence Ric Grenell — have already begun to panic and cast doubt about whether he was truly chosen by Trump, Politico reported Tuesday.

Under the constitution, Donald Trump's presidency has to end after the completion of his second term in office, meaning he cannot fundraise for a reelection campaign.

CNN's David Wright on Tuesday noted a shift in Trump's campaign into a leadership political action committee (PAC).